Cisco joins other big tech companies in calling for a federal privacy law. This is a blatant attempt to shutter what Louis Brandeis called the “laboratories of democracy” – states, such as California, that pioneer new policies to protect their citizens.

Not only do charter schools not improve student performance, but they are inefficient and drain resources from public schools. It should come as no surprise that resource-scarce schools who’ve also typically had their students cherry-picked have trouble.